From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mohamed Eldesoky Subject: Re: Blocking Netranges Based on IP-to-Country CSV Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2004 14:17:52 +0300 Sender: netfilter-bounces@lists.netfilter.org Message-ID: <1403218a04091904173de016ea@mail.gmail.com> References: <7EACCDBB65D37443912D80713CC1245D02382B06@fsnsab20.losangeles.af.mil> <20040917114613.GP452@metastasis.org.uk> <1403218a0409190209416c12b9@mail.gmail.com> <20040919110111.GA706@metastasis.org.uk> Reply-To: Mohamed Eldesoky Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20040919110111.GA706@metastasis.org.uk> List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: netfilter-bounces@lists.netfilter.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Netfilter Mailing List On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 12:01:11 +0100, Nick Drage wrote: > On Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 12:09:53PM +0300, Mohamed Eldesoky wrote: > > > > > > Depends how you use the information. And to be honest considering the > > > reputation of some sources of traffic, such as Korea and South America, > > > which might be unlikely to have legitimate connections to your site, it > > > would be handy to block them all. > > > > I don't like this reason at all, but let me agree with you temporarily. > > What if a client with good reputation "ie, from your country :-)" is > > spending his vacation in South America, and wanted to check something > > in your website ?? > > Then don't reject packets according to country :) > I am against the idea of rejecting based on the country. It reminds me of that domain registration site that rejected all of our credit cards, because they don't like that region. F**k'm, we are dealing with other registrars :-) > -- > mors omnia vincit > > -- Mohamed Eldesoky www.eldesoky.net RHCE